The already popular and very powerful Martini-Henry is receiving a sniper variant with a long-range scope and a bipod. Allowing the weapon to be much more effective at longer ranges thanks to the scope.

Unlock requirements: 300 kills with the Infantry variant and 25 kills with the bayonet charge.

Seems like they're all getting some kind of sight attachment plus a bipod or foregrip. Sounds nice.

Except that I'm hearing that the new 120 round mag, bipod-equipped, scope-bearing Hellriegel is an absolute monster. As if the gun wasn't versatile enough, it's now able to compete against LMG's at long ranges.

Pretty good options, I myself have been waiting for the two sniper variants and I am rather curious about the Hellriegel, too. The Ribeyrolles works quite well with the bipod, but it is situational. With the high ROF the Hellriegel can shine in closer combat for trenches and has a large enough magazine to be usable at longer ranges as well.

The optical is a bit of a two-sided coin. The factory version had no visual recoil or misalignment whatsoever, but the RDS in this game wobble around like crazy diminishing all the accuracy bonuses and moving while shooting is a rather futile thing.

The Martini-Henry is a sniper variant for the worst long-range BA. A carbine variant would have been better (and it existed IRL).

The 1906 sniper is a 5 round SLR with a bipod. That's an oxymoron if anything, the 5 rounders require good positioning, use of cover and short exposure times to excel, but we got a variant that forces the user to be stationary and lengthens TTK by adding overhead time before you can fire through the bipod deploy animation. Bipodding down with only five rounds to throw down-range? Lel. Couldn't we just get an optical instead?

The Hellriegel is an assault weapon that sucks on the move. Sure, you've got MANY BULLIT, but that won't do you much good when they either miss when off the bipod or you get domed when plopping down the bipod and trying to outsnipe actual long-range guns with your SMG. Why not a Trench or an actual Factory variant?

Sure, the variants are interesting, and likely fun to use, but to me it seems like DICE tried to check two boxes simultaneously:

the 1906 variant shuld have been marksman, not sniper... i wonder why dice made that choice? same for the martini henry, an optical or trench variant would have made a lot more sense, sniper was the only variant they shouldn't have used for the martini.

on theother hand, the hout is ok and the hellriegel while probably being inaccurate it is accurate(?) to history for the mag and anyway fun.

Levelcap made a rather nice video about them showing them off. They all look rather usable. Personally I do not see the issue with any of these weapons, bar the atrocious unlock requirements. The Selbstlader sniper variant is like the .35 Marksman, and I had an awesome time with that one.

The Martini Henry iron sights were really awful for me so I think a scope is a nice addition. The bipods on these are just a gimmick, so why not? It is not like we have a lot of other underbarrel attachments.

The Luger is by far the one I want most. A proper ranged SLR, something that can really work at (counter) sniper ranges has been lacking. I'm not really sure I get the Bipod complaints, you just go prone or stand/crouch by cover, we're not dealing with BF4 Bipods here. Pop in, blast some poor guy with 3-5 rounds, move and reload immediately. Having a Bipod doesn't mean you're supposed to roleplay a turret.

Prepare your laughbox

the Sebstalder is quiet good since it can 3hit kill at any distanc ,but In my opinion i actually thikn the sweeper is better, its got a really really fast firerate that can beat alll those Noobmaticos, Helregall adn shitguns in close quarters , and its also really accurate out to like l;ong range,. overall great allround gun, jsut my 2$ tho

I hope this tells us DICE is willing to add more variants to existing weapons, they could start with the Ribeyrolles and Sjogren Inertial but the Lebel could do with a marksman variant and the Chauchat is just begging for a trench variant.

Also since they have given the Ribeyrolles Factory a bipod what would you guys think of giving all factory weapons bipods?
It would bring more people over to factory variants like what happened for Low Weight LMGs and make them less of a boring variant.